India should avoid recklessly complicating boundary issues

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party stripped the disputed Kashmir region of its seven-decade autonomy and special status on Monday.

Which, to uninformed outsiders may sound like an internal affair of India.

The BJP government-proposed "Jammu and Kashmir Reorganization Bill" seeks to divide the state into two union territories - Jammu and Kashmir, which will have an elected legislature, and Ladakh, which will be ruled directly by the central government.